Pleurisy
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Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox | }} Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs, which can cause painful respiration and other symptoms. Pleurisy can be generated by a variety of infectious and non-infectious causes.
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Symptoms
- Fever
- Cough
- Chills
- Shortness of breath
- Weight loss
- Poor appetite
- Sharp chest pain with breathing. Pain can limit the movement on the side of the chest with pleurisy. The pain can also be in the back around where the lungs are.
- Rapid shallow breaths
- Inability to take a deep breath
- Itching in sites on the back (near the site of the lungs, but no visible rashes)
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Famous cases
- Ballerina Anna Pavlova died of pleurisy, because the operation that would have saved her life would have left her unable to dance.
- Count Raymond III of Tripoli died of pleurisy at the age of 47 in 1187; some claim that grief over the Battle of Hattin and the siege of Jerusalem destroyed his will to live.
- Hernan Cortes, Conquistador (Conqueror) of Mexico, died of pleurisy at the age of 62.
- Opera star Enrico Caruso died from pleurisy.
- Renée Vivien, the lesbian poet, died of pleurisy at the age of 31.
- William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy at the age of 68. (9th President of the United States)
- LeBron James had pleurisy in October of 2005. He was treated and released.
- Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles, as a child in Liverpool.
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